Due to career and general life advancement, I haven't been around much this year, especially lately. This situation is not likely to improve as the year progresses (I have an exam coming up in December, among various classes and misc things), so I think it's best if I officially step down instead of maintaining my position while visiting less and less and seeming not to care.

I'll still be around, just not as an admin. Peach and strawberryjam still lead the place, and they have plans for the board and will continue to take care of it as they have since late last year. Heed their word, or I will beat you up.

I'm also stepping down from my responsibilities on projecthello. The rest of the crew there will continue to take care of it and keep it chugging. They've been providing most of the work that went into the updates for a while now, so not much will change there aside from them having more direct access.

Does this mean if someone else picks up projecthello, you'll come back to randomly bitch about it?

Anyway, thanks for all your work here. While I often disagreed with you on things, even I can't deny you came up with some good ideas here & actually implemented them instead of the "oh it'd be cool if..." kind of talk a lot of us do & then never actually act on, haha.

All jokes aside, I'm glad your putting your life first before the board. I hope you do well with you career and such, and you will be missed... Well, it's not like your leaving us (at least not yet), but you get what I'm saying.

Yeah life can be a pain when it makes you have to sorta 'give up ' things you enjoy. But best of luck to you.

Your situation has to be pretty bad for things to come to this point, and in most people's cases, it doesn't actually come to this, it is more of a decision to actually give up the things you enjoy or previously enjoyed in favor of other things, for whatever reason, which is what I believe happened with sadude. Even as my career has been advancing lately and I'm working more hours per week almost every week, I still go out of my way to make time for the things I enjoy. My hobbies are the biggest loves of my life and nothing will replace them or shove them out of my life because I won't allow it to happen, and this place is one of them, but it will suck to see sadude gone, when he is the first person I met from the entire board and a large part of the reason I joined. Its not like I post that often anymore, though, so I don't think a whole lot will change.